Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 07/26/2005
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children, Adult Humor, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: HBO Home Video
Documentary filmmaker
George Zaloom takes his first stab at fiction with this
comedy about a family dominated both literally and figuratively by explosive personalities.
Pop Bazinni (
Giancarlo Gianini) is an Italian expatriate who runs his family's fireworks business in New Jersey. After his son dies in a explosion in a storage shed,
Pop needs a new second in command, and his cousin,
Giovanni (
Stanley Tucci), is sent from Italy to help with the business, though
Giovanni was chosen less for his business acumen than because he needed a change of scenery after a messy breakup with his girlfriend,
Maria (
Jo Champa), has left him horribly depressed. As
Giovanni learns the ropes of both the fireworks business and life in America,
Val (
Bridget Fonda), the young widow of
Pop's late son, finds herself the focus of the loutish romantic advances of
Joey Zito (
Anthony DeSando), whose mother (
Anna Maria Alberghetti) runs a rival fireworks company eager to find out the secret formulas behind the
Bazinni's products.
Talia Shire and
Alexander Milani head up the film's supporting cast.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
